Always someone who wants it for nothing, but I do get sympathetic when I give a price and they say money is tight. Some would love to have the work done but just can not afford it. You do have to remain steady. One local guy charged for summer beaver a while back, $50 but would trap for $0 in the winter for fur. I spoke with him and said, let me get this straight. You get $50 to catch a beaver and burry it in summer, but to catch it, skin it, stretch and market it in winter you are happy to get $20 and nothing for your service. I told him that he should decide who he wanted to be, an ADC guy or a fur trapper, which if I remember correctly he did not like. When work is done for nothing the client figures the work is worth nothing.
When a client says, "you get something for the fur in winter," I don't disagree, but point out the service in solving a problem is where the charge comes in. If I do handle the fur after hours, if there is such a thing, I point out that for that extra money I do a lot of extra work. But, if they would like, and don't want me to make the extra bucks for the extra work I'd be more than happy to pile them where they want them. No takers yet.